Ernst Wilhelm Nay Tour for adults and the curious aged 8 and over
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His powerful, intensely coloured paintings are considered a bridge across art before and after the Second World War, across expressionism, abstraction and free gestural painting after 1945, across German and international modernism: Ernst Wilhelm Nay (1902–1968). With around 120 paintings, watercolours and drawings, this retrospective considers all stages of Nay’s multifaceted oeuvre.
The exhibition is structured chronologically and unfolds in five chapters: from the early works through groups such as the Hekate, Disc and Eye pictures to Nay’s late work. However, by shifting perspectives, looking backwards and forwards in time, the exhibition also offers a view of Nay’s work as an organic, interwoven whole.